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<p><b>A heroic tale of personal sacrifices in the cause of liberty, foreshadowing the national conflict that followed</b></p><p>Six years before the onset of the Civil War, two courageous figures--one a free white man and one an enslaved black woman--risked personal liberty to ensure each other's freedom in an explosive episode that captured the attention of a nation on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this deeply researched account of the rescue of the slave Jane Johnson by the Philadelphia
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- Author
- Nat Brandt, Yanna Kroyt Brandt
- Publisher
- The University of South Carolina Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781570036873
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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